[LeetCode294] Flip Game II

You are playing the following Flip Game with your friend: Given a string that contains only these two characters: + and -, you and your friend take turns to flip twoconsecutive "++" into "--". The game ends when a person can no longer make a move and therefore the other person will be the winner.

Write a function to determine if the starting player can guarantee a win.

For example, given s = "++++", return true. The starting player can guarantee a win by flipping the middle "++" to become "+--+".

class Solution {
public:
	bool firstPlayWinning(string s) {
		return canWin(s);
	}

	bool canWin(string& s) {
		for(int i=0;i<s.size()-1;i++) {
			if(s[i]==s[i+1]&&s[i]=='+') {
				s[i]=s[i+1]='-';
				bool win=!canWin(s);
				s[i]=s[i+1]='+';
				if(win) return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}
};